

GreenPill
Kevin Owocki
GreenPill is about crypto-economic systems that create positive externalities for their neighbors & for the world.
We explore the intersection of programmable money, game theory, & mechanism design. We search for powerful new ways to fund, design, develop, & market regenerative web3-era applications and digital assets. We launch the meme of regenerative crypto-economics into the world.
Ethereum is the ultimate substrate for human coordination. Learn about the web3 builders who are solving coordination failures and creating a more regenerative infrastructure for the world using Ethereum.
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We explore the intersection of programmable money, game theory, & mechanism design. We search for powerful new ways to fund, design, develop, & market regenerative web3-era applications and digital assets. We launch the meme of regenerative crypto-economics into the world.
Ethereum is the ultimate substrate for human coordination. Learn about the web3 builders who are solving coordination failures and creating a more regenerative infrastructure for the world using Ethereum.
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Feb 7, 2023 • 56min
86 - Decentralized Dharma with Vince Horn
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- Today’s guest is Vince Horn, the host of the Buddhist Geek podcast, exploring how Buddhism and Dharma evolves in the digital age. Financial and psychological sovereignty are surprisingly related spheres. This is a unique episode for us—stick around for the social meditation about halfway through. ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 🌟Glo | The Anti-Poverty Stablecoin https://bankless.cc/glo 📎 OPOLIS | CRYPTO NATIVE EMPLOYMENT https://bankless.cc/Opolis ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 4:50 Decentralizing Dharma 7:30 MMORPG 14:00 A Social Meditation 18:00 What to Note 21:40 A Multiplayer Approach 24:22 Interbeing 28:30 Dharma Legacy 30:50 Peer-to-Peer Transmission 38:00 A History Lesson 41:00 The Real Deal 47:00 Facing Challenges 50:00 Emerging Dimensions 54:00 Closing Thoughts ------ Resources: Buddhist Geek https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dharmas-daos-with-kevin-owocki/id211752923?i=1000537318307 Interbeing https://interbeing.us/ Vince Horn https://twitter.com/VinceFHorn Quadrants https://twitter.com/VinceFHorn/status/1622634727785070593 ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

Feb 2, 2023 • 50min
85 - MEV Redistribution with apriori
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- a priori is a Crypto researcher & writer speculating about protocol designs inclusive of MEV, Execution, Consensus, & ZK cryptography among other things. In this episode, we’re discussing some random half-baked thoughts on MEV redistribution. What if we could fund public goods with MEV? ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 🌟Glo | The Anti-Poverty Stablecoin https://bankless.cc/glo 📎 OPOLIS | CRYPTO NATIVE EMPLOYMENT https://bankless.cc/Opolis ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 5:00 a priori 12:00 MEV Redistribution 20:50 The Meta 23:45 Endgame and Use Cases 31:20 Robust and Free 35:00 The Rabbithole 39:10 MEV Utopia 43:30 Growing Impact ------ Resources: A priori on Twitter: https://twitter.com/apriori0x Random half-baked thoughts on MEV redistribution: https://mirror.xyz/apriori.eth/0Y2hpGnFpBY08ALM6gc-E3hLtss9KXhY8LKCo4WSZFQ ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

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Jan 31, 2023 • 48min
84 - MetacrisisDAO with Daniel Schmachtenberger
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- Daniel Schmachtenberger is a founding member of The Consilience Project, aimed at improving public sensemaking and dialogue. He is researching and propagating the idea of the Metacrisis, which outlines the totality of risk that we face as a species and planet. The systems that compose our society generally seek to trend in two directions—toward dystopia and catastrophes. Is there a way we can avoid these fates? Daniel says yes, via the third attractor: creating a more antifragile world that takes advantage of our exponential technologies. This is the third in a series of episodes with Daniel, in which we dive into coordination mechanisms that can address the Metacrisis. ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 🌟Glo | The Anti-Poverty Stablecoin https://bankless.cc/glo 📎 OPOLIS | CRYPTO NATIVE EMPLOYMENT https://bankless.cc/Opolis ------ Resources: Daniel Schmachtenberger https://civilizationemerging.com/about/ Episode 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVEP0zAK-xQ Episode 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRohQKNNuM4 MetacrisisDAO https://www.metacrisisdao.com/ ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

Jan 26, 2023 • 56min
83 - Retroactive Public Goods Funding Round 2 | Bobby Dresser of Optimism
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- Bobby Dresser is the general manager at the Optimism Foundation, coming with an exciting announcement. Round 2 is The Optimism Collective’s second round of Retroactive Public Goods Funding (RetroPGF) RetroPGF 2 will allocate 10m OP tokens to fund public goods that support development and usage of the OP Stack. Optimism’s vision is to build a global system where positive impact to the collective is rewarded by profit to the individual. RetroPGF is an experimental mechanism to realize this goal of “impact = profit”. By funding public goods sustainably, the Collective can create a rich ecosystem and a better economy. ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 🌟GLO | The Anti-Poverty Stablecoin https://bankless.cc/glo 📎 OPOLIS | CRYPTO NATIVE EMPLOYMENT https://bankless.cc/Opolis ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 3:45 Round 2 8:10 Ether’s Phoenix 11:45 How it Works 16:45 Elegant Governance 20:27 Iterative Loops 26:40 Practical Pluralism 31:40 Growth Hack 38:00 Everyone Coordinates 42:55 A Gradual Process 47:45 Getting Involved 53:00 Rituals ------ Resources: Bobby Dresser https://twitter.com/b0bby RPGF Docs https://community.optimism.io/docs/governance/retropgf-2/ Optimism Governance https://gov.optimism.io/ ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

Jan 24, 2023 • 57min
82 - Common Ground with Erik Voorhees
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- Erik Voorhees is a crypto OG and founder of the exchange Shapeshift; Erik is a libertarian—at EthDenver last year we joined a discussion panel on Collectivism vs Individualism in crypto and public goods. In this episode, we find our common ground between separate but compatible political ideologies as we move forward toward collective goals. ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 🌟Glo | The Anti-Poverty Stablecoin https://bankless.cc/glo 📎 OPOLIS | CRYPTO NATIVE EMPLOYMENT https://bankless.cc/Opolis ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 5:30 Erik Voorhees 10:10 Non-Custodial Exchanges 12:00 Pluralism 18:00 Access vs Markets 22:00 Ideologies 27:00 Aligning on Principles 31:51 Legitimacy 36:30 Public vs Coercion 42:45 Right to Healthcare 47:00 Contribution 53:15 Rolling the Dice ------ Resources: Erik Voorhees https://twitter.com/ErikVoorhees ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

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Jan 19, 2023 • 1h 10min
81 - Other Internet | Toby Shorin
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- Toby Shorin is the founder of Other Internet, an applied research organization that aims to create alignment between technology, values, and culture by studying and building social technology. Toby is also a prolific writer, often writing about the intersection of technology, moral regimes, and social structures and how they shift over time and influence one another. Take the green pill anon. ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 🌟Glo | The Anti-Poverty Stablecoin https://bankless.cc/glo 📎 OPOLIS | CRYPTO NATIVE EMPLOYMENT https://bankless.cc/Opolis ------ Resources: @tobyshorin Headless Brands Squad Wealth Life After Lifestyle https://otherinter.net/ ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

Jan 17, 2023 • 49min
80 - The Gitcoin Alpha Round | Janine Leger, Connor O'Day, and Nate Gosselin
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- The Gitcoin Alpha Round is live! Today, we’re discussing the Gitcoin Grants decentralized Alpha Round. This is a quadratic funding round hosted by Gitcoin on the completely new modular protocol, built by Gitcoin. Janine Leger and Connor O'Day join from Gitcoin Partnerships Team, while Nate Gosselin is coming from Gitcoin’s Product Team. Tune in to find out more about the $1 Million Web3 funding round, taking place from January 17th-31st. Git involved! Take the green pill anon. DONATE: https://gitcoin.co/ LEARN: https://go.gitcoin.co/blog/announcing-the-gitcoin-alpha-round ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 🌟Glo | The Anti-Poverty Stablecoin https://bankless.cc/glo 📎 OPOLIS | CRYPTO NATIVE EMPLOYMENT https://bankless.cc/Opolis ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 5:30 The Grants Round 8:25 New Product Changes 13:30 Testing Rounds 19:15 What’s Coming Next? 27:30 Coordination Mechanisms 39:10 Grant Stack 45:00 High Level Thoughts ------ Resources: Connor O'Day https://twitter.com/connoroday0 Nate Gosselin https://twitter.com/heynate_g Janine Leger https://twitter.com/JanineLeger ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

Jan 12, 2023 • 35min
79 - Local Currencies & Basic Income | Alain Brenzikofer
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- On today’s episode, we’re joined by Alain Brenzikofer from Encointer, the project built for enabling communities everywhere to generate their own, autonomous currency, and use it to stimulate the local economy. Stick around as we dive into sybil resistance, economics, and the impact of public goods as we build a brighter, more regenerative world. ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 🌟Glo | The Anti-Poverty Stablecoin https://bankless.cc/glo 📎 OPOLIS | CRYPTO NATIVE EMPLOYMENT https://bankless.cc/Opolis ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 3:30 Encointer 6:30 Sybil Resistance 9:25 The First Iteration 14:00 The Pilot Program 17:54 Local Currencies 22:10 Network Effects 27:15 Rwanda 31:00 The Roadmap 34:15 Get Involved ------ Resources: Alain on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brenzi5 Encointer https://encointer.org/ ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

Jan 10, 2023 • 45min
78 - SuperModularity with Divya Siddarth
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- In today’s episode, Kevin welcomes back galaxy brain thinker, Divya Siddarth, a collective intelligence fundamentalist at the Collective Intelligence Project and political economist at Microsoft. Today’s show is all about super modularity. What is that? Don’t worry, you’ll have a better idea by the end of the episode. Take the green pill anon. ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 🌟Glo | The Anti-Poverty Stablecoin https://bankless.cc/glo ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 4:33 SuperModularity 9:18 Richer Spectrum Design 18:00 The Future of Web3 24:50 Fruitful Path Towards Decentralization 28:30 Building Polycentric Systems 31:18 What Else Divya is Excited About 34:19 Longterm Greedy, Prevention, & Optimism 40:20 Steve Jobs Email 43:10 Web3 Appreciation 44:37 Closing ------ Resources: https://cip.org/ https://twitter.com/divyasiddarth https://twitter.com/IrinaMarinescu ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures

Jan 5, 2023 • 50min
77 - Universal Profiles with Fabian Vogelsteller
✨ Subscribe to the Green Pill Podcast ✨ https://availableon.com/greenpill 🟢 Get the GreenPilled Book 🟢 https://greenpill.party/ Apple Show Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/greenpill/id1609313639 Spotify Show Link: https://open.spotify.com/show/0l6aXWC94dd0RA3tkKfxjd ----- In today’s episode, Kevin chats with Fabian Vogelsteller, Founder LUKSO, Author of ERC-20 and ERC-725 and former -Mist, -web3.js and -Lead Ðapp developer of Ethereum. The two chat about Fabian’s path to founding LUKSO, the ERC-20 and ERC-725 standards Fabian created, and trends in the identity space and so much more. Take the green pill anon. ------ SPONSOR PILLS: 🌟Glo | The Anti-Poverty Stablecoin https://bankless.cc/glo ------ Topics Covered: 0:00 Intro 4:20 Fabian’s Path 8:12 ERC-20 12:20 Redoing ERC-20 16:40 ERC-725 25:57 ERC-725 Use Cases 30:00 Trends in the Identity Space 35:03 Decentralized Society 39:52 What Fabian is Focused On Now 43:46 10 Years in the Future 46:33 Closing & Resources ------ Resources: Fabian Vogelsteller https://twitter.com/feindura LUKSO https://twitter.com/lukso_io Universal Profile https://universalprofile.cloud/ ----- Music by WABI SABI - snowflake - https://thmatc.co/?l=7786B012 ----- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. This video is not tax advice. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research. Disclosure. From time-to-time I may add links in this newsletter to products I use. I may receive commission if you make a purchase through one of these links. Additionally, the Bankless writers hold crypto assets. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures